Afterward, Kent County Circuit Court Judge Dennis Leiber ruled in favor of the city. The Court of Appeals then reversed his ruling -- and now the state's highest court will take up the issue.

State voters in 2008 approved the state's medical marijuana law, allowing licensed caregivers to serve up to five patients each.

In today's decision to hear the case, Supreme Court justices said they want both sides to submit legal briefs on whether the city’s zoning code ordinance is subject to state pre-emption by the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act.